NUR 320 Practice Test Questions with Correct Answers

Any mircroorganism capable of producing disease is called a? Pathogen Beneficial microbes located in the body with unique characteristics based on each location that often function to compete with and prevent infection? Normal flora The level of ability to cause disease is called? Virulence Transmission of infection requires what 3 factors? 1. Reservoir or source of infectious agents 2. Susceptible host with portal of entry 3. Mode of transmission (contact, droplet, airborne) sepsis Caused by organisms that are normally present in the body's environment and kept in check by the immune system but occur as a result of immunosuppression ? opportunistic infection Widespread infection that triggers whole body inflammation? epidemiology parasitic or protozoal infection fungal infection viral infection bacterial infection Infection that affects only one organ or area of the body? localized infection Infection that extends from origin by way of the bloodstream to "seed" other areas? disseminated infecion (good examples are STIs) systemic infection